R. Kelly Calls Out Spotify Over Decision To Stop Promoting His Music – You’re Picking Sides!

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R. Kelly Calls Out Spotify Over Decision To Stop Promoting His Music – You’re Picking Sides!

R. Kelly is responding to Spotify’s decision to no longer promote his music on their streaming service. On Thursday, the company announced that under its new public hate content & hateful conduct policy, they would no longer promote his music in any of its playlists and algorithmic recommendations. His music will still be available on the platform. Kelly’s management says,

We appreciate Spotify for continuing to make R. Kelly’s songs accessible to millions of people, although it will stop listing his songs on its official playlists. Spotify is adopting a new ‘Hate Content & Hateful Conduct’ policy. R Kelly never has been accused of hate, and the lyrics he writes express love and desire. Mr. Kelly for 30 years has sung songs about his love and passion for women. He is innocent of the false and hurtful accusations in the ongoing smear campaign against him, waged by enemies seeking a payoff. He never has been convicted of a crime, nor does he have any pending criminal charges against him.

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Spotify has the right to promote whatever music it chooses, and in this case its actions are without merit. It is acting based on false and unproven allegations. It is bowing to social-media fads and picking sides in a fame-seeking dispute over matters that have nothing to do with serving customers. Meanwhile, though, Spotify promotes numerous other artists who are convicted felons, others who have been arrested on charges of domestic violence and artists who sing lyrics that are violent and anti-women in nature. Mr. Kelly falls into none of these categories, and it is unfortunate and shortsighted that Spotify fails to recognize this.

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